Revere, MA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

Section 17.16.175(F) sets the height ceiling for any new professional office park structure at two and one-half stories or thirty-five feet. The rule includes its own grandfather clause: if a preexisting office park structure is altered or reconstructed, its height cannot exceed its existing number of stories, so a taller legacy building does not have to be cut down to the new 35-foot line just because it undergoes renovation, but it also cannot add a story beyond what it already has.

The height limit sits alongside the section's other dimensional standards, the twenty-foot front and fifty-foot side and rear yards, the 25 percent lot coverage cap and the 15 percent open space requirement, and applies in every district where a professional office park use is permitted: by right in PDD2 and TED, and by special permit in RB, RC, RC1, RC2, RC3, PDD1, NB, GB, GB1, CB, HB, LI and IP. Because office parks can go in by special permit across so many of Revere's business and even some residential-adjacent districts, the 35-foot cap functions as a citywide backstop against out-of-scale office development wherever the use lands, not just in the two districts where it is allowed outright. The building inspector applies the same certificate-of-occupancy and permit-withholding authority under §§ 17.60.020 through 17.60.050 to enforce compliance.